"This is a program that supports local solutions supported by evidence-based best practices and technical assistance and is a model that we should all be able to support."
"In 2009, the NTIA was tasked with administering $4 billion in grants to increase broadband access and adoption in underserved and unserved areas of the country."
"First, all doctors, Republican or Democratic doctors prefer health insured patients over uninsured patients."
"Medicaid patients have higher morbidity because they are a higher risk group."
"Block grant and per capita block grants will create more uninsured patients."
"Since the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, emergency departments around the nation including mine have seen a dramatic decrease in uninsured patients by 50 percent or more."
"If we repeal Medicaid expansion, people will lose healthcare coverage."
"In California alone, the nearly 3.5 million individuals who enrolled in Medicaid under the ACA expansion provision could lose their coverage."
"If it was not for Medicaid, the Coachella Valley and regions like mine all across the country would not have access to health care."
"We all agree that it deserves protection. The real question is how?"
"I gracefully thank Chairman Bishop and Congressman Chaffetz for all of the hard work you guys have invested."
"Do we really want to set Native American conversations with Congress and agencies back another 100 years? My sincere and heartfelt request is no."